. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 132 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April 23, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. THE MANGO IN JAMAICA. The Jamaica Li'ddn' of ilarch has the follow- ing interesting note on the history of the mango in that island :— The jjlants found on board the vessel captured by Lord Rodney -nere lodged in a garden near Gordon Town, and twelve years afterwards, in 1794, an advertisement ajijieared in the Jioi/al Gnzttte offering eighteen jilants for distribution, .six for each county. This was the nucleus of its cultivation in Jamaica, and su
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 132 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April 23, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. THE MANGO IN JAMAICA. The Jamaica Li'ddn' of ilarch has the follow- ing interesting note on the history of the mango in that island :— The jjlants found on board the vessel captured by Lord Rodney -nere lodged in a garden near Gordon Town, and twelve years afterwards, in 1794, an advertisement ajijieared in the Jioi/al Gnzttte offering eighteen jilants for distribution, .six for each county. This was the nucleus of its cultivation in Jamaica, and such a congenial home did the mango find here, that thirty-two years after it was iiitroduceil it was described as being 'one of the connnonest fruit trees, in a great number of ; The next time that we find 'new blood' brought in is in 1869, when Sir .John Peter Grant imported from India two cases of grafted mangos, the first containing six varieties, the .second twelve. Among these was the famous ' Bombay.' After this the number of fresh varieties introduced quickly increased in number, and in the succeeding years, up to 1901, young imported jilants have been grown in the ishmd, and swelled the numbers of this delicious fruit. In conclusion, a few words about the king of mangos, the No. 11, may not be uninteresting. According to one account it was the first that came into the island, the ])lants on the captured French vessel all being nundjered—No. 11 being the famous variety. It has, however, been also said tliat the numbering took ]iliice many years later, when the different kinds of mangos then in .Jamaica were thus enumerated to distinguish them one from the other. SELECTION OF FRUIT FOR EXPORT. In a leading article entitled ' Some jilain words to our lianana planters,' the Jamaica Daily Tflegrajih of April .5 mentions that the last Direct Line Steamer had taken a cargo of nearly 2,000 bunches of bananas—the first shipment since the hurricane of August l
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